On 2007-06-14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The method takes > 10 seconds, the function call 0.041 seconds!
What happens when you run them in the other order? The first time you read the file, it has to read it from disk. The second time, it's probably just reading from the buffer cache in RAM. -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! Catsup and Mustard at all over the place! It's visi.com the Human Hamburger! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list